<< You can blame Americans for being too compassionate, and trying too hard to
impose their morality, values, and economy on everyone else.

You can blame Americans for being too selfish, and exploiting everyone in
the world and not caring what happens to them.

What really surprises me is how many people seem to blame America for both >>

What I think this dichotomy illustrates is the (perception of) two Americas
in which we live: the first, of "compassionate ugliness" (nod to GW), we
assign to Government; the second, which is somewhat Listian, to Big Business.